Preface vii Introduction ix Nanowires as Building Blocks of New Devices: Present State and Prospects 1 F. Hernandez-Rarnirez, J. D. Prades, R. Rodriguez-Diaz, A. Rornano-Rodriguez, J. R. Morante, and S.
Mathur Mechanistic Studies on Chemical Vapor Deposition Grown Tin Oxide Nanowires 9 Jun Pan, Lisong Xiao, Hao Shen and Sanjay Mathur Multifunctional Silicon Nitride Ceramic Nanocomposites Using Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes 17 Erica L. Corral Simulation Based Design of Polymer Clay Nanocomposites Using Multiscale Modeling: An Overview 27 Dinesh R. Katti and Kalpana S. Katti Preparation and Characteristic Control of Conducting Polymer/Metal Oxide Nano-Hybrid Films for Solar Energy Conversion 35 Yasuhiro Tachibana, Satoshi Makuta, Yasuhide Otsuka, Jun Terao, Susurnu Tsuda, Nobuaki Kambe, and Susurnu Kuwabata Liquid Phase Morphology Control of Metal Oxides - Phase Transformation of Stand-Alone ZnO Films in Aqueous Solutions 51 Yoshitake Masuda Fabrication of the Finestructured Alumina Porous Materials with Nanoimprint Method 61 Hong Dae Kim, Tadachika Nakayarn, Jun Yoshirnura, Kazuyoshi Irnaki, Takeshi Yoshirnura, Hisayuki Suernatsu, Tsuneo Suzuki, and Koichi Niihara Structure Control of the Nanotube/Nanoparticle Hydrid Materials with Sonochemical Processing 67 Masahiro Terauchi, Tadachika Nakayarna, Hisayuki Suernatsu, Tsuneo Suzuki and Koichi Niihara Efficient Photocatalytic Degradation of Methylene Blue with CuO Loaded Nanocrystalline TiOp 77 Arun Kurnar Menon and Sarnar Jyoti Kalita Constituent Phases of Nanosized Alumina Powders Synthesized by Pulsed Wire Discharge 89 Satoru Ishihara, Yoshinori Tokoi, Yuu. Shikoda, Hisayuki Suematsu, Tsuneo Suzuki, Tadachika Nakayama, and Koichi Niihara The Formation of Nanostructure Compound Layer during Sulfur Plasma Nitriding and Its Mechnical Properties 99 Kyoung II Moon, Yoon Kee Kim, and Kyung Sub Lee Adhesion Improvement of Hard Boron Nitride Films by Insertion of Various lnterlayers 111 Tetsutaro Ohori, Hiroki Asarni, Jun Shirahata, Tsuneo Suzuki, Tadachika Nakayarna, Hisayuki Suematsu, and Koichi Niihara Production of Alumina Matrix Nanocomposite by Solid State Precipitation 119 Arnartya Mukhopadhyay and R. I. Todd Nanostructured Alumina Coatings Formed by a Dissolution/Precipitation Process Using AIN Powder Hydrolysis 133 Andraz Kocjan, Kristoffer Krnel, Peter Jevnikar, Tornaz Kosmac Synthesis of Aluminum Nitride Nanosized Powder by Pulsed Wire Discharge without Ammonia 143 Yoshinori Tokoi, Tsuneo Suzuki, Tadachika Nakayarna, Hisayuki Suematsu, Futao Kaneko, and Koichi Niihara Ductile Deformation in AlumindSilicon Carbide Nanocomposites 155 Houzheng Wu, Steve Roberts, and Brian Derby Author Index 165.